Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 89% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 30 June 2047 at 17:37.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2047 after 2 days on 7 July 2047 at 10:33.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 587 of Meeus index or 1540 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes and it is 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠240° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠274.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 04:56 about 15 days since last apogee on 18 June 2047 at 10:22 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 16 July 2047 at 03:57 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 365 988 km (227 414 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 480 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 368 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 24 June 2047 at 13:16 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 July 2047 at 11:43 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 22 June 2047 at 10:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.328° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-25.343° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 July 2047 at 15:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 7 July 2047 at 10:33 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov